The suspects are Augustus Amartey Antwi, 42, Victor Doe Chukwuna, 27, a Nigerian, and Stephen Inkoom, 61, the victim’s houseboy. Items found on them included a gallon of acid and a knife. The three were arrested in the act when they had laid ambush near the victim’s house at Regimanuel Estate, waiting for her, when the police swiftly intercepted and arrested them.
Briefing Daily Guide, Kpeshie Divisional Commander, Chief Superintendent Victor Gyan Kyereko indicated that Stephen Inkoom, a personal driver of the victim, was on November 2010 sent with an amount of GH¢2,100 with a Nissan Urvan bus to buy some detergents from Tema.
He said suspect Stephen Inkoom never returned with the money or the vehicle. “A report was lodged at the Sakumono Police Station where police managed to find the vehicle abandoned at a fitting shop along Tema road,” the police chief said.
Chief Superintendent Kyereko reiterated that about two weeks ago, suspect Stephen went to Agbogbloshie to recruit suspects Augustus Amartey Antwi and Victor Doe Chukwuna to help him rob his madam of her money.
According to the suspects, upon interrogation, Stephen Inkoom told them that the victim normally carried huge sums of money on her whenever she closed from her shop at the Nungua Market.
The Kpeshie Commander said before the day of the operation, Inkoom took the friends to survey the shop at the Nungua market and the house respectively. “On Friday March 18, 2011, the group went to lay ambush at the shop of the victim and when she closed and was moving towards the house, they traced her to her house using a taxi with registration number, GW7907,” the police said.
He added that the police had information earlier and swiftly rushed to the scene, intercepted them and arrested them.
He said a search in their vehicle revealed a new sharpened knife and a gallon of acid which they intended to use in committing the act. The police boss noted that during interrogation, the new recruit confessed that the personal driver contacted them to help him carry out his mission of robbing the victim of her money and also to pour the acid on her. He said investigations are ongoing to ascertain the truth.
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